The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them. In 2015, the UN General ...

World Development Indicators (WDI) serves as the World Bank's primary collection of internationally comparable data on development. It is a comprehensive resource that contains pertinent, top-notch ...

Encouraging development has been on the agenda of the United Nations for decades. Pointing to the United Nations Charter, which expresses the determination to “promote social progress and better ...

(a) Name: Programme of integrated environmental and economic accounting. (b) Brief Definition: Programme of integrated environmental and economic accounting leading to the regular publication of ...

There have been significant efforts at the international, regional and national levels to define, develop and use indicators to measure sustainability. Most significant of these was the United Nations ...